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Zelensky’s Plan for World Peace
But first, Vladimir Putin.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has seemingly been everywhere this week.
He has been fighting in the conflict zones, leading from the front. Zelensky has been giving media interviews, trying to build international support for Ukraine’s war effort. He addressed the British House of Commons this week, members of the U.S. Congress, and other world leaders.
Like any good general, Zelensky knows he has to fight on a number of mission-critical battlefronts. In the shooting war, he is outgunned, outmanned, and outmatched by a former KGB strongman and cold-blooded killer with far more experience waging war than Volodymyr Zelensky ever dreamed about- for all the latter’s courage and to his credit.
Conversely, on the world stage, Vladimir Putin can’t touch him. Diplomatically, Zelensky is proving more than a match for Putin. He is certainly more popular than Putin, at home and abroad.
The Russian President has burned a great many bridges during this conflict. Ukraine’s President has built just as many and to spare.
If the Ukraine survives this conflict, indeed if Mr. Zelensky survives this conflict, world powers, corporations and humanitarian organizations stand ready to charge into the breach of what Putin has already done to devastate…